Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 47

Devanagari script

अहोरात्रकृतात्पापात्स शृण्वन्नपि मुच्यते

Transliteration

ahorātrakṛtātpāpātsa śṛṇvannapi mucyate

Translation

แม้เพียงได้สดับฟัง ก็ย่อมพ้นจากบาปที่กระทำตลอดวันและคืน

Word by Word

• अहोरात्रकृतात्: from (sin) committed day and night
• अहोरात्रकृतात्: Apadana (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अहोरात्र-कृत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; कृ धातोः क्त)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th case), एकवचन; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त विशेषण; ‘पापात्’ इत्यस्य विशेषण (done in a day and night)

• पापात्: from sin
• पापात्: Apadana (Source/अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी (5th case), एकवचन; अपादान

• सः: he
• सः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), एकवचन

• शृण्वन्: listening
• शृण्वन्: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्रु (धातु) शतृ (वर्तमान-कृदन्त)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st case), एकवचन; शतृ-प्रत्ययान्त वर्तमानकाले कृदन्त (present active participle)

• अपि: even
• अपि: Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; अप्यर्थे (even/also)

• मुच्यते: is freed
• मुच्यते: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: मुच् (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; कर्मणि-प्रयोग (passive), आत्मनेपद

Speaker

Narrator (contextual; within Arbuda-khaṇḍa of Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Agnitīrtha

Type: ghat

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A small assembly listens to a reciter reading the Agnitīrtha-māhātmya; the day-night wheel (sun and moon) appears symbolically above, while a gentle flame-reflection shimmers on sacred water.

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Śravaṇa (devout listening) to sacred Purāṇic teaching itself becomes a purifier that dissolves everyday sin.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The verse functions as a general śravaṇa-phala statement within the Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa / Arbuda-khaṇḍa setting, tied to tīrtha-māhātmya discourse rather than naming a single site in this line.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No external rite is prescribed here; the act emphasized is hearing (śravaṇa) as a spiritual practice.